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Romantic Era Quiz Please get out a sheet of notebook paper Full heading Title: Romantic Era Quiz

Finished Turn in at front of room Please get out your Romantic Poetry Packet Turn to the JOURNAL section of your binder and answer the following question –Taking both “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” into consideration, what is Blake’s message to his readers? Analyze specific evidence from the text to prove the theme.

How do we answer this? Lamb –Speaker believes God is generous, “meek,” “mild” Tyger –Speaker believes God is majestic, yet full of power Both –Clearly, God must be both – each speaker is wrong to assume that God can be one-sided

“Chunk” response In “The Lamb,” the speaker, an innocent child, apostrophizes his beliefs about the persona of God to a lamb. After dwelling in the delight of God’s generosity by repeating “gave” in three separate lines, the child informs the lamb that his maker is “meek” and “mild” who, like the speaker, “became a little child.” By relating God to both himself and the lamb, the speaker equates himself with a gentle, loving God because he lacks any experience with God’s wrath. This view juxtaposes the speaker’s awe in “The Tyger.” This unidentified speaker addresses a much more powerful animal and notes the tiger’s majestic appearance as “burning bright.” By describing him as “burning,” the speaker indicates that there is something to be feared in the tiger. He follows with several rhetorical questions, pondering what higher being could “grasp” the tiger’s “deadly terrors.” Through the grave descriptions of “the stars [who throw] down their spears,” the speaker indicates he has experienced the wrath of the creator, who is capable of creating and controlling the dangers of the world. By contrasting the two speakers’ views, Blake reveals that each speaker lacks what the other has: innocence is ignorant without experience, but experience without the hopefulness of ignorance will only cause one to fear the world.

Strategies for Analyzing TPCASTT (address form first) The Road NOT Taken –Why did the poet have his speaker talk to a lamb instead of a goat? –Why is the tiger burning rather than shining?